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Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen(appleinsider.com)

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Guest_User@lemmy.world
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They gained unauthorized access. From that guys definition that is a hack, no an exploit

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stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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But they are using a loophole to gain sensitive data. They did not gain unauthorised access to the system.

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Guest_User@lemmy.world
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They absolutely gained unauthorized access to the data. Their access was not intended or sanctioned. If it was intended to be public and accessible like it was, this wouldn’t be a story and they wouldn’t have locked down the access.

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stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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But by the guy’s definition, they also used a loophole to extract sensitive information, so it it also an exploit.

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